Parking garages are becoming a hot commodity.

Construction has already started on the parking garage in Lot 5, and this summer will mark the start of construction on the school’s second parking garage in Worth Hills.

The parking garage will add approximately 1,200 new spaces and will be monitored by the TCU police. It should be completed by July 2016, according to the university’s website.

“We knew we needed parking,” said Craig Allen, the director of housing and residence life.

“There will be more parking than there was three, four years ago down here,” Allen said. “But we’re adding a lot more students down here.”

“When we’re done with all the construction that we plan to do down here it will more than double to 1,700 or 1,800 beds. And yet we’ll have more green space down here when we’re done than when we started.”

Construction on the new parking garage in Worth Hills will begin with the destruction of Brachman Hall as soon as the semester ends in May.

While the campus will be gaining a new parking garage, TCU will be losing one of the school’s most tight-knit communities.

“In the long run [the parking garage] benefits the campus a lot but it doesn’t change the fact that a lot of folks are going to be sad that it’s happening,” Brachman Hall Director Jeff Alexander said.

“Brachman’s always a family and I think that’s the feel folks get when they stay there. People just get a strange attachment to it.”